202 C H A F T E R 
Not having feen this work, I cannot give 
the reader any further information relating 
to it, 
smith's histories. 
In the County Hiftories of Irelandy publifh- 
ed under the diredion of the Phyfico-hif- 
torical Society of Dublin by Charles Smith, 
we meet with catalogues of the rare plants 
in each diftriil. Thefe Hfts, however, not 
being drawn up with fufficient knowledge of 
the fubjedl, want that authenticity, which 
the critical botanifl: would expeft, and 
have not greatly enlarged the botany of 
Jreland, 
In that of The 2:a\}LZXvt and prefent State 
of the County of i3c;'ie';7,'' 1744, 8% the 
author fpeaks of the Savin as indigenous — 
a privilege which w^ill fcarcely be allowed 
to it in that kingdom ; although Dr. Mo- 
J.YNEUX, and after him Threlkeld, had 
recorded it. When it is recolleded for what 
nefarious purpofes it v/as originally intro- 
duced into many gnrdens, it may readily be 
conjeftured to be tlie perpetuated offspring 
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